^' CALLISTE MELANONOTA. 



THE BLACK-BACKED TANAGER. 



PLATE XXIIL Fig. 1 c?, 2 ?. 



Tanagra peru\'iana .... Destn. Taa. pi. 11. 



Vielll. Enc. Meth. p. 77ii. 



Tanagra gyrola, foem.. . Max. Beitr. iii. p. 417- 



Dubois, Orn. Gal. pi. 87 ( c? ). 

 Aglaia melanota Swains. Orn. Dr. pi. 31 ( <? ), 43 ( ^ ). 



Calliste peruviana .... Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 8. 



Bp. Consp. p. 234 ; Rev. et Mag. tie Zool. 1851, 



p. 140; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 14. 

 Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 64; Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p. 12. 



Calliste melanota. Bunn. Syst. Ueb. iii. pt. ii. p. 182. 



Calliste melanonota. . . . Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 254. 



Mas adidtus. Capite toto et cervice postica, saturate cupreo-rufis : 

 dorso postico et tectricibus alarum niteuti-flavescenti-ochra- 

 ceis : interscapulio nigerrimo : loris nigris : remigibus rectrici- 

 busque nigris cserulescente lirabatis : subtus clare viridis, 

 ventre medio ceerulescente, imo cum crisso et tibiis pallide 

 rufis : rostro et pedibus fusco-nigris : long, tota 5'8, alse 3*0, 

 caudse 2*0 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina. Supra viridis, interscapulio obscuriore : pileo et cervice 

 postica cuprescentibus : loris nigris : subtus viridescens : 

 ventre medio flavescenti-albido, imo cum crisso paululiim ru- 

 fescente. 



In the year 1 805, Desmarest published his work entitled ' Histoire 

 Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers,' containing 

 an account of all the birds of those families which were then 

 known to science. Twenty-seven species of Tanagers and seven of 

 Manakins were treated of by this author. It may serve to give some 

 idea of the advances which have been made during the last half 

 century towards a knowledge of species in Zoology, to remark 

 that there are now not less than 270 Tanagrince and more than 50 

 Piprince enrolled in our catalogues ; and it is probable that further 



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